economics – Page 6 – ricardian ambivalence

Can housing boom without price growth?

With the drop in the AUD, assessing financial conditions is (again) becoming a hot topic. It’s a tough thing to

The post Q1 GDP recession debate has been both fun and informative (see my first and second posts, and Mark’s

Following last week’s Q1 National Accounts, I cheekily suggested that the domestic economy was in recession. Many of my peers

Despite the RBA’s efforts to kill the beast in the June RBA meeting minutes (see this post), the “lower AUD

The May non-farm payrolls report was broadly as expected: printing at +175k (mkt 163k), with offsetting revisions worth a net

Ricardo’s recent post on Government debt led into a very interesting debate about the merits of the NBN project. I

Yesterday’s Q1 GDP report showed some worrying signs for the domestic economy: in particular, it showed that the domestic economy

There was a bit of confusion about the path of debt subject to the legislative ceiling of AUD300bn following the

There are a great number of interesting stories in yesterday’s data-deluge, however my personal favourite is the profits story in

Last week’s capex report was both keenly anticipated and the source of much confusion. It was keenly anticipated, as it’s

Amidst all the talk about US economic strength, and Fed tapering, there has been little focus on the slow hissing

In Treasury Secretary Parkinson’s post budget speech to the ABE, there is a flight of carbon-price fancy that made me